List price for stitches at Stanford Health Care: $93K

Re:List price for stitches at Stanford Health Care: $93K by RHSeeger on Sunday July 11, 2021 @11:04AM (#27801382)

Of course, you also have to contend with things like "medicare is not allowed to negotiate drug prices"... except now there's even _more_ motivation for drug companies to bribe politicians to get things like that encoded into law.

While I'm a proponent of universal healthcare, it does have some negatives.

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Re:List price for stitches at Stanford Health Care: $93K by rayiner on Sunday July 11, 2021 @01:56PM (#27803078)

Medicare isn’t allowed to negotiate drug prices because it mostly doesn’t cover or pay for drugs. Drugs are covered under Medicare Part D plans through private insurers. It’s their job to negotiate drug prices.

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Re:List price for stitches at Stanford Health Care: $93K by ceejayoz on Sunday July 11, 2021 @11:11AM (#27801435)

Is this an actual problem in the various real-world examples of single payer and universal healthcare out there?

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Re:List price for stitches at Stanford Health Care: $93K by RHSeeger on Sunday July 11, 2021 @11:43AM (#27801707)

No, but it's already a problem in the US. I would expect moving to a single payer system would make that particular type of issue worse.

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Re:List price for stitches at Stanford Health Care: $93K by ceejayoz on Sunday July 11, 2021 @01:21PM (#27802760)

So, the problems brought on by the uniquely weird and shitty US health insurance system will persist when we transition to the tried-and-tested alternatives the rest of the developed world use without those problems?

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